House of Terror

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Moving exhibition charting dark times in the 20th century.

The imposing apartment at Andrássy út 60 looks much like any other on Budapest’s main boulevard. However, its respectable façade masks a dark history. Agents of successive terror regimes based their headquarters behind its walls during the 20th century – first the Hungarian Nazis in 1944 and after that the communist secret police. It was a place of interrogation, torture and execution until the 1956 Uprising. Today it hosts a moving exhibition – something of a mixture between museum, memorial and gallery space – that uses videos and photographs to tell the story of those years.